Recent reading
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luzulaWell, Mom's covid ran its course and she is fine now, though still a little tired and her sense of smell/taste has not recovered yet. Apparently I never got it, despite being exposed for days when Dad must have been the most contagious? Weird. I really want to take an antibody test in a while--maybe I had already had it and not known?
Nightbirds on Nantucket by Joan Aiken (1966, #3 in the Wolves series)
Probably the book I liked least in the series so far (maybe because I liked the interaction between Simon and Dido in the last one) although it is still charming! There was some wacky stuff towards the end, notably a huge cannon that was supposed to shoot James III from across the Atlantic. Also there is a sea captain who finally gets to be reunited with the pink whale he has been pining for his whole life. Incidentally we learn that Bonnie Prince George is by this time George IV, so I am strengthened in my theory that James III is actually an ancient undead creature.
Silver in the Wood and Drowned Country by Emily Tesh (2020)
For my book club. I liked these a lot! I thought they were unpredictable in a good way--I did not at all see where the first book was going, but I thought it was perfect. After that, I could not at all imagine what the second one was going to do. I was a little skeptical in the beginning, fearing that it was heading into some sort of monster-of-the-week territory, but it won me over. And again the ending went in a different direction than I was expecting! The romance is fairly lightly sketched, especially in the first one, but it worked for me, and so did the mythological setting.
Nightbirds on Nantucket by Joan Aiken (1966, #3 in the Wolves series)
Probably the book I liked least in the series so far (maybe because I liked the interaction between Simon and Dido in the last one) although it is still charming! There was some wacky stuff towards the end, notably a huge cannon that was supposed to shoot James III from across the Atlantic. Also there is a sea captain who finally gets to be reunited with the pink whale he has been pining for his whole life. Incidentally we learn that Bonnie Prince George is by this time George IV, so I am strengthened in my theory that James III is actually an ancient undead creature.
Silver in the Wood and Drowned Country by Emily Tesh (2020)
For my book club. I liked these a lot! I thought they were unpredictable in a good way--I did not at all see where the first book was going, but I thought it was perfect. After that, I could not at all imagine what the second one was going to do. I was a little skeptical in the beginning, fearing that it was heading into some sort of monster-of-the-week territory, but it won me over. And again the ending went in a different direction than I was expecting! The romance is fairly lightly sketched, especially in the first one, but it worked for me, and so did the mythological setting.
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Date: 2021-04-09 09:02 pm (UTC)So glad everyone's pulling through at home!
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Date: 2021-04-09 09:22 pm (UTC)Thanks! It's a relief.
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Date: 2021-04-10 12:29 am (UTC)Also very glad everyone's doing better, take good care.
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Date: 2021-04-10 12:32 pm (UTC)Very glad to hear everyone is okay and recovered!
Also glad you're enjoying Joan Aiken :) I don't remember the stuff with the cannon at all! I think Nightbirds on Nantucket must have been one of the ones my local children's library didn't have.
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Date: 2021-04-10 03:20 pm (UTC)Those Joan Aiken books continue to sound amazingly bizarre. :D So there's a James III cannon-ing across the Atlantic, and a George IV—this does sound like an interesting take on the historical monarchy.
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